[opensuse] How can wlan be enabled?
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Hi all,
I cannot make wifi. Upon booting I have an unsupported splx structure
message.This is related to the iwlwifi driver. I followed the advice
found on some pages but none of them worked.
Rfkill list says: 0: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
ip l says
1: lo:
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On 03/28/2016 01:45 AM, oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu wrote:
Hard blocked: yes Operation not possible due to RF-kill
Look for a hardware (physical) airplane mode switch on the sides of your laptop. Check bios settings as well. Also find the exact model of wifi card and google that to make sure it is supported (hint: it is not necessarily ASUS's own chipset). You may need to install firmware. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Idézet (John Andersen
On 03/28/2016 01:45 AM, oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu wrote:
Hard blocked: yes Operation not possible due to RF-kill
Look for a hardware (physical) airplane mode switch on the sides of your laptop. Check bios settings as well.
Also find the exact model of wifi card and google that to make sure it is supported (hint: it is not necessarily ASUS's own chipset).
You may need to install firmware.
Thanks for your answer. I've been googling nearly all day, but to no avail. Wireless is enabled (unlocked) in bios. The airplane mode can be switched with Fn+F2, but has no effect. At least pressing the buttons has no effect. Rfkill UNBLOCK switches on the airplane led, and BLOCK switches off. This refers to phy0. These times the asus-wlan device is set to the opposite setting. This laptops has an Intel Dualband 7265 AC wireless chip. The driver is called iwlwifi. The firmware is listed in /lib/firmware. I copied seemingly newer *.ucode files there, but nothing happenned. Maybe the kernel did nor load them, I do not know how to make it. During installation I tried to set network repositories (did not manage), but only at that time the list of available wifi networks was listed. I also do not know, whether this is a kernek related problem, or not. I use kernel 4.1.15. I read somewhere that it did not work with kernel 4.2.1. That is in buntu 15.10 which I could not install due to nouveau problems. BUntu 16.04 beta has kernel 4.4. It made touchpad work but no wifi. But at least wifi icon showed up from time to time. I also tried kernel 4.5-1,2,3 and still no wifi. Kernel 4.5-4 led to crash, X did not load, only cli. I read tons of recipes on the net, mostly for debian based distros, nothing worked. Some say they had to boot into windows first, enable wifi, and after booting into some linux the wifi worked. I met this situation years ago with aDell inspiron netbook with XP and oS 12.3 dualboot with Atheros wifi. Mine is oS only. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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On 03/28/2016 11:41 AM, oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu wrote:
The airplane mode can be switched with Fn+F2, but has no effect. At least pressing the buttons has no effect.
Ok. I only mention this because so many times I've tracked down wifi problems only to find there is an external physical switch that the user didn't even know about. You never mentioned the exact model, so I can't check for you. Intel says: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/wireless-netw... that this chipset really only began to be supported in kernel 4.2. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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Idézet (John Andersen
On 03/28/2016 11:41 AM, oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu wrote:
The airplane mode can be switched with Fn+F2, but has no effect. At least pressing the buttons has no effect.
Ok.
I only mention this because so many times I've tracked down wifi problems only to find there is an external physical switch that the user didn't even know about. You never mentioned the exact model, so I can't check for you.
The notebook is an Asus K501 UX with i7 6500 cpu. It has an integrated Intel and a dedicated nvidia gtx950m gpu, intel dualband 7265 ac wifi and an rtl ethernet card. I did not discover any other physical switch - like that one withthe antenna icon, only the fn+f2 airplane mode switch.oS Leap was installed withkernel 4.1.12 and after booting airplane mode was permanently on, but could be switched off with fn-f2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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2016-03-28 21:43 keltezéssel, John Andersen írta:
On 03/28/2016 11:41 AM, oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu wrote:
The airplane mode can be switched with Fn+F2, but has no effect. At least pressing the buttons has no effect. Ok.
I only mention this because so many times I've tracked down wifi problems only to find there is an external physical switch that the user didn't even know about. You never mentioned the exact model, so I can't check for you.
Intel says: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/wireless-netw... that this chipset really only began to be supported in kernel 4.2.
Ok, thanks. I found this page and downloaded the corresponding file and copied the contents into /lib/firmware. In my understanding since I am on kernel 4.1.x this is not supported yet. Once it will be uprgaded to 4.2.x or with the coming new distro, it will be supported. So I have to wait.
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* Albert, Oszkó
2016-03-28 21:43 keltezéssel, John Andersen írta:
On 03/28/2016 11:41 AM, oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu wrote:
The airplane mode can be switched with Fn+F2, but has no effect. At least pressing the buttons has no effect. Ok.
I only mention this because so many times I've tracked down wifi problems only to find there is an external physical switch that the user didn't even know about. You never mentioned the exact model, so I can't check for you.
Intel says: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/wireless-netw... that this chipset really only began to be supported in kernel 4.2.
Ok, thanks. I found this page and downloaded the corresponding file and copied the contents into /lib/firmware. In my understanding since I am on kernel 4.1.x this is not supported yet. Once it will be uprgaded to 4.2.x or with the coming new distro, it will be supported. So I have to wait.
Why would you wait? Download a fitting kernel, create your own repo locally and install a additional kernel from your local repo. If it fails to work for you, simply remove that kernel and live with no wifi. Or add a usb dongle that is known to work and use it instead of the onboard wifi. Or install Tw with uses kernel 4.5, or .... -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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2016-03-29 14:13 keltezéssel, Patrick Shanahan írta:
* Albert, Oszkó
[03-29-16 05:25]: 2016-03-28 21:43 keltezéssel, John Andersen írta:
On 03/28/2016 11:41 AM, oszko@chem.u-szeged.hu wrote:
The airplane mode can be switched with Fn+F2, but has no effect. At least pressing the buttons has no effect. Ok.
I only mention this because so many times I've tracked down wifi problems only to find there is an external physical switch that the user didn't even know about. You never mentioned the exact model, so I can't check for you.
Intel says: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/network-and-i-o/wireless-netw... that this chipset really only began to be supported in kernel 4.2.
Ok, thanks. I found this page and downloaded the corresponding file and copied the contents into /lib/firmware. In my understanding since I am on kernel 4.1.x this is not supported yet. Once it will be uprgaded to 4.2.x or with the coming new distro, it will be supported. So I have to wait. Why would you wait? Download a fitting kernel, create your own repo locally and install a additional kernel from your local repo. If it fails to work for you, simply remove that kernel and live with no wifi. Or add a usb dongle that is known to work and use it instead of the onboard wifi. Or install Tw with uses kernel 4.5, or ....
Thank you for your suggestions. i After some reading I could create my own repo, instal a kernek from it, but I do not know, how to remove a non-working kernel and return to a working one. I know my laptop works with kernel 4.5-3 but not with 4.5-4. But the main point is, that I searched my office and found a TP-Link dongle. That will be the solution. I do not follow the developments in TW, but some time ago I read it had difficulties with virtualbox. I will need VB, to run windows.
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2016-03-29 at 15:08 +0200, Albert, Oszkó wrote:
Thank you for your suggestions. i After some reading I could create my own repo, instal a kernek from it, but I do not know, how to remove a non-working kernel and return to a working one.
Trivial :-) In Grub, at boot, you can select which to start. Then you can use YaST to select the kernel version to remove (in the version tab). Or use the rpm command to explicitly remove a few packages by specifying the full name. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlb7sW4ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WWiwCfb/b1feWi8tYrRDio2C3W3kaF 7fIAn1zTQuIxbxDVshMugZyM3ZPM/V3W =s+fS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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